Dear All;-
   Todays Cincinnati Enquirer has a front page article on modern mussel rustlers. It reports that the endangered "Washboard Mussel" is being rustled from the Licking River in Kentucky and being sold to Japan and China for use in making cultured black pearls. The Washboard mussel can grow up to ten inches and live up to 100 years.---if allowed to.
    Art

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